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Pelosi’s dangerous battle against Trump
This week, almost 700 former federal prosecutors, including prominent Republicans, signed a letter saying the Mueller report lays out offenses against President Donald Trump that would lead to indictment if committed by anyone who isn’t president. All of which is another way of saying that a corrupt executive is the problem of Congress, not of prosecutors.
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Pace Pompeo: What if the US is 'Sowing Chaos' in Mideast & Iran is a Status Quo Power?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told NBC that Iran is an active threat to US interests and 'sowing chaos' in the Middle East. It strikes me that exactly the opposite is true. The Islamic Republic of Iran has in recent years, despite its heritage in the 1979 revolution, acted as an Establishment, status quo power. I don't agree with Iranian policy, e.g. its Syria intervention; I'm just acting as a dispassionate analyst and asking if it is really destabilizing. I conclude, not so much.
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No major US company surveyed by CNBC supports Trump's call for Fed to cut interest rates
Not a single North America-based CFO on the CNBC Global CFO Council thinks that the Fed should cut interest rates, which President Trump and his economic advisors have been demanding. The majority of CFOs expect the Federal Reserve to neither increase or lower interest rates this year, according to a new survey, consistent with recent commentary from Fed chairman Jerome Powell.
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Could climate change submerge Joe Biden's presidential bid?
Climate change is transforming life by redrawing coastlines, turning vast areas of forest into infernos, stirring enormous storms and spreading exotic diseases. An indirect casualty of this upheaval could be Joe Biden’s hopes of becoming US president. Biden, frontrunner in the polls to secure the Democratic nomination, has not laid out a plan to address the crisis.
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Mike Pence tells Liberty University graduates to prepare to be 'shunned,' 'ridiculed' for being a Christian
Vice President Pence warned the 2019 graduating class at Liberty University in his commencement address that they would face persecution for their faith. “Throughout most of American history, it's been pretty easy to call yourself Christian,” Pence told students Saturday, according to USA Today. “It didn’t even occur to people that you might be shunned or ridiculed for defending the teachings of the Bible.”
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White House explores new farmer bailout plan as US-China trade war heats up
Biggest market for quality food. Lets close that. It's ok though, we can subsidise via tariffs paid by the consumer on clothes...problem solved.
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Trump supporters who donated to GoFundMe wall now worry they got scammed
Trump boosters are baffled: Hustler and scam artist who raised $20 million on GoFundMe isn't really building a wall
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Apple would need to raise iPhone prices significantly to offset next tariffs, analysts say
Apple would need to raise the price of the iPhone by 14% in order to offset the costs of new tariffs, J.P. Morgan estimates.
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A Decisive Year for the Sunrise Movement and the Green New Deal
The organization, with the help of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has helped to push climate change to the center of American politics.
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Chelsea Manning sent back to jail for refusing to testify
Former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning has been ordered back to jail for refusing to testify to a grand jury
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Iran dismisses possibility of conflict, says does not want war
Iran's top diplomat on Saturday dismissed the possibility of war erupting...
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Washington state braces for eco-friendly ‘human composting’
The state is expected to become the first to legalize the environmentally friendly alternative to burial or cremation.
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Corporate America Is Terrified of the Green New Deal
There's a reason more big businesses are pushing for a carbon tax—and it's not because they want to fight climate change.
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A Presidency That Will Live in Infamy
The House Judiciary Committee convened on Tuesday without its star witness. Don McGahn, the former White House counsel and a key witness in the Mueller report, refused to appear after President Trump ordered him not to testify. New York Representative Jerry Nadler, the committee’s Democratic chairman, told the assembled lawmakers and spectators that congressional subpoenas “are not optional.” He also condemned Trump in some of his strongest language yet.
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In San Francisco, an attack on press freedoms and echoes of autocracy
A free press is apparently now a criminal conspiracy. By Yashar Ali. [Autoplay]
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The Rank Hypocrisy Of Rahm Emanuel
Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel took advantage of his elite privilege and joined The Atlantic, a major media publication, as a contributing editor. By Kevin Gosztola.
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Facebook refuses to delete fake Pelosi video spread by Trump supporters
Facebook says it will continue to host a video of Nancy Pelosi that has been edited to give the impression that the Democratic House Speaker is drunk or unwell, in the latest incident highlighting its struggle to deal with disinformation. The viral clip shows Pelosi – who has publicly angered Donald Trump in recent days – speaking at an event, but it has been slowed down to give the impression she is slurring her words.
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A Single Scandal Sums Up All of Trump’s Failures
Many of the tales of controversy to emerge from the Trump administration have been abstract, or complicated, or murky. Whenever anyone warns about destruction of “norms,” the conversation quickly becomes speculative—the harms are theoretical, vague, and in the future.
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Under DOJ's Own Theory For Prosecuting Julian Assange, Donald Trump Probably Violated The Espionage Act
Yesterday, I wrote about the new, superseding indictment of Julian Assange and noted how the theories behind it were absolutely insane and a blatant attack on the 1st Amendment. The Obama administration went after leakers using the Espionage Act...
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Amash gets standing ovation at first town hall after calling for Trump's impeachment
Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) received a standing ovation Tuesday evening at his first public event since becoming the first Republican to call for President Trump's impeachment.
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